Announcement: Gavin English, Deputy Head (Pastoral)

We are delighted that Gavin English will become Alleyn’s first Deputy Head (Pastoral). Mr English joins the Senior Management team as the first ever Deputy Head Pastoral.

Mr English (Tulley's 1996) longstanding teacher and Director Sport at Alleyn’s, joins the Senior Management Team at the start of this term.

As Deputy Head Pastoral Mr English will work closely with all members of Alleyn’s community to ensure that the Alleyn’s continues to deliver on its promise of an exceptional personalised approach to caring for our pupils and helping children and parents make the very best of their time with us.

The upcoming development of the new Wellbeing Centre demonstrates how seriously we take the challenges the young people in our care can face and we believe enhancing mental fitness and ensuring that school is a happy place for our whole community is crucial to facing those challenges.

“I am particularly keen to consider how, through our ever-evolving ALP and PSCHE programmes, the work that we do around diversity and inclusion, our impressive co-curricular offer, and of course having FUN, might enable Alleyn’s pupils to not just be ‘great’ but deliberate in their efforts to do good! The positive part that Alleyn’s pupils can play in their local and wider community both during their time in school and when they leave us, is close to my heart and I believe our far reaching and powerful outreach offer is something that can really enable this. It's harder to feel sad when you're making others happy!” Gavin English

"Gavin, who was himself educated at Alleyn’s through the “Assisted Place” programme, was selected following a rigorous and extensive recruitment process, which attracted over two hundred applicants. His appointment reflects the originality, dynamism, clarity and joy of his vision for this role and his powerful, values-based approach to leadership. He will bring something different and important to our leadership team and he is, of course, very excited about working more broadly with your children and across the whole school." Jane Lunnon, Head